The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This ...is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This Light inspires, and plays uponThe nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,...And speaks through hollow empty Soul,As through a Trunk, or whisp'ring hole,Such language as no mortal EarBut spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Then I had only prisoners' thoughts. I awaited the daily walk which I took in the yard, or my lawyer's visit. I managed the remain...der of my time very well. I have often thought that if I was made to live in a dry tree trunk, without any other occupation but to watch the flower of the sky above my head, I would have gradually gotten used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at R...ome, I can be intoxicated with beauty and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters...,--a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[F]rom Saratoga [N.Y.] till we got back to Northampton [Mass.], was then mostly desert. Now it is what 34. years of free and good ...government have made it. It shews how soon the labor of man would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object, the happiness of man, to the selfish interests of kings, nobles and priests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Standing at his appointed place, at the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from th...e depths. He neither serves nor rules--he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »